我们是否可以帮助他们,现在怎么样了?我们的案子如何了?按照移民法,签证过期的惩罚是三年之内,不允许申请澳洲的签证。”帕马先生说。
他们很想学习
尽管这些令人毛骨悚然的投诉,国际学生们还是想继续留在澳洲读书,他们只想转校。(惹不起,夺得起,总可以吧?)
不行!一些学校拒绝转交他们的学分和学习档案!
“虽然我每天都上课,但是我还是被记录为缺席旷课。我要求学习放了我,让我转学,他们说,我必须交下一个学期的4200澳币学费。”另外一名学生哭诉着说。
“我和我的教育顾问说,而且付了两笔钱,但是发票上没有写明每一笔钱是做什么的。会计说,我必须要多交钱,因为,我已经被报告给移民局了。”
对于澳洲国际学生的教育服务,澳洲参议院的调查正在开展,被称作ESOS法律正在草拟。同时,国际学生的福利待遇也被列为调查行列之内。被列为高风险的学院,已经开始了审计调查。帕马先生表示,没有必要收紧现行的法律,更好地执行现行的法律就好。
ESOS是法律,但是一直以来没有被执行。我们不需要新的法律,只需要将现成的法律付诸实施。
维多利亚省的注册文凭机构表示,这些学生的投诉,在法律上,他们的学校已经违法,但是并未表示当局是否追究和调查这些案件。这个机构表示:我们很重视这些学生的投诉,但是按照程序,他们必须先在学校里进行投诉,然后他们才可以调查。
一无所知
代表私校的机构---澳洲私人教育培训委员会表示:他们不知道这样的投诉。
“无论如何,我们不是管理机构,同时我们鼓励那些感觉学校没有履行合同的学生,将这些事情递交给管理机构。”这个委员会主席AndrewSmith表示。 “我们有很牢固的法律框架,来约束这些受理国际学生的学院。这些框架必须有效地,始终如一地被执行。我会鼓励那些学生,任何的学生,只要他们感觉担忧,可以把他们的学校告到相关的管理机构。我们有一个法典规范,如果有人投诉一所学院,而投诉的事项在法典规范之内的,如果违反,我们将采取行动。”
以上文章编译自ABC教育新闻。
BAXTER评论
呼吁工党政府雷霆万钧,摧枯拉朽般割除澳洲教育毒瘤。
通读此文,怒发冲天。这不仅仅是澳洲教育的耻辱,更加是澳洲的耻辱。澳洲,这个文明社会,名声被这些非法私校搞得一落千丈!不良私校和移民局联手,变相绑架无辜学生。让留学生血本无归,最终是一条遣送的路。三年之内无法踏足澳洲大陆,其用心之险恶,手段之泼辣,令人瞠目结舌。而其明火执仗,堂而皇之,更令各位看官震撼。
而所谓的法制框架,其实是为了这些学生而定;根据一些机构的程序,这些学生必须在校内投诉,不果,其机构才可以受理。但是学校和移民局联手,以移民法为依靠,在这些学生还没有投诉到这些机构前,先下手为强,将其遣送,以达到灭口的目的。投诉案是小,如果惹上了移民法的官司,这才是大麻烦。各位居住在澳洲的看官大抵都知道,凡是惹上移民局的官司,丢失签证的,想打回来,没有几千澳币是下不来的。这些学生左右为难:不交下一学期学费,签证被取消;而打官司把签证打回来,也得花几千澳币。怎么算,都是自己吃亏。这是多么荒唐的司法逻辑?!
现在澳洲教育的毒瘤,始作俑者不是工党政府,乃是前任霍华德政府。饮鸩止渴的教育出口模式,竭泽而渔的教育收费,变相绑架的移民法+教育出口规定。一笔笔血债,现在轮到刚刚上台两年的工党政府收拾残局。
BAXTER在此呼吁澳洲工党政府正视这些层出不穷的教育问题,改变法律的架构。现在,应该是雷霆万钧,摧枯拉朽地彻底割除澳洲教育毒瘤的时候了。
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Release date: 08 Sep 2009
Colleges 'threatened to deport' foreign students
PMhas obtained copies of complaints from overseas students who claimcolleges have threatened them with deportation unless they make extraand advance payments.
In some cases, students have been marked as absent or banned fromsubmitting assignments because they have not paid for the nextsemester's fees. The Overseas Student Support Network Australia (OSSNA) says students are becoming increasingly desperate.
OSSNA executive director Robert Palmer says since the start of theyear, about 1,500 students have come to his organisation withlegitimate and serious complaints about being tricked and ripped off.
"We've had six, seven students that we have had to help out ... were in a very bad way; thinking of suicides," he said.
"We've had a student come who was supposed to be enrolled in anursing course, turned up at the college, said 'I'm here for mycourse', the next day they said 'yes, you're in hairdressing.
"We've had another student that came in and they were going to domotor mechanics and they found out they were enrolled in a businessmarketing course."
'Policy documents'
A key issue for international students is securing a visa to studyin Australia through a legal contract known as a confirmation ofenrolment.But as Mr Palmer explains, some colleges are disregarding thatsigned contract and before classes start presenting students with areplacement contract - a so-called 'policy document' - that'saccompanied by a demand for tuition fees to be paid.
"When they're shown this policy document [they're told] 'if youdon't sign it we're not entering class; you can go home'. So thestudents sign it," he said. But part of that agreement says you have got to pay for a semester in advance, or two semesters in advance.
"I had a girl come to OSSNA [and] she was in tears because she hadbeen told unless she paid for the second semester she wasn't allowed tosubmit her assignments," he said.
The pressure to pay comes early in the current semester, as one student's complaint reads.
"The IT teacher ordered me to leave my class because I had to paythe next semester's fee before I finished my current semester," thestudent said."I was told if I did not pay this instalment I would not be allowed to sit in class.
"I explained that I had already paid $5,000 for the six months and have not yet finished the semester I paid for.
"The college refused to listen and said I must pay more to attend the classes.
"I said I did not want to continue my studies, but the college said even then I need to pay the instalment."
Mr Palmer says other students have been marked as absent, again putting their visas in peril.
"I've got some students at one college now taking photos ofthemselves or their group in class to prove that they were there," hesaid."I have another college saying that the students were not inattendance. When I've investigated and talked to others, other studentsof other nationalities, and they said 'yes, they were there all thetime'."In a handful of instances, students have even been deported."Some are still writing in to me from their countries saying 'canyou help us, what's happening now and how's our case', because if theyare sent back to their own countries they're not allowed to apply forthree years to come back again," he said.
Keen to stay
Despite the complaints, students are keen to stay in Australia to study - they just want to move colleges.
But in some cases they have been denied their results and academic records, and some colleges have refused to release them.
"Even though I was attending classes, I was being marked absent bystaff, so I then asked for a letter of release, but they refused togive me one unless I paid an advance semester fee of $4,200," anotherstudent said.
"I spoke to a student adviser and paid two amounts but the receipts do not contain full details of what the payments were for.
"The accountant told me I must pay more. I was told that I was being reported to immigration."
A Senate inquiry is underway into the education services foroverseas students, known as the ESOS Act, and another investigation inunderway into the welfare of international students.
Rapid audits are also being conducted into colleges deemed high risk. But as Mr Palmer explains, there is no need for tighter regulation, just better enforcement of the existing laws.
"The ESOS Act is the law and the ESOS Act isn't being enforced," he said."So we don't need more regulations, we just need the current regulations to be enforced."
Late today the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authoritysaid the examples of student complaints did represent a breach to thenational code, but the authority did not say whether it was alreadyinvestigating these cases.
It said it took all student complaints seriously, but that studentsmust work through the internal complaints procedures of their collegesfirst before the authority can investigate.
'Unaware of complaints'
Meanwhile, the peak body representing private colleges, theAustralian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET), says itis not aware of any such complaints.
"However, we are not the regulatory agency and I would encourage anystudent who feels that a college may not have honoured a contract totake that issue up with the regulatory authorities," ACPET chiefexecutive Andrew Smith.
"We have a very strong and clear regulatory framework for theoperation of institutions delivering education to internationalstudents.
"That framework should be implemented, consistently, effectively and efficiently.
"I would encourage any student who has a concern to take that to their college and to the relevant regulatory authorities.
"We have a code ethics. If somebody wants to lodge a complaintagainst an institution in line with the code of ethics, we willinvestigate and, if warranted, we will take action."
Source: abc news
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